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Lot 17
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George Washington Lambert

Estimate
12,000 - 16,000 AUD
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Description

  • George Washington Lambert
  • THE FORD ACROSS THE JORDAN AT JIZRA BENAT JACOB
  • Signed and dated G.W. Lambert 1919 (lower right); bears artist's name and alternate title The Crossing of the Jordan Palestine on stretcher on reverse
  • Oil on canvas
  • 45 by 49.5cm

Provenance

Norman Schureck, Sydney
W. Boustead
The late Dr and Mrs D. R. Sheumack; purchased from the above in 1959; thence by descent

Exhibited

110 Years of Australian Painting: an exhibition of the Art of Australia - drawings, paintings, sculpture - since 1840, Farmer's Blaxland Gallery, Sydney, 1950, cat. 54 (as 'Middle East Landscape')
Norman Schureck Loan Exhibition: a selection of paintings from his collection, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, June 1958, cat. 64 (as 'Middle East Landscape')
George Washington Lambert, S. H. Ervin Gallery, Sydney, 22 August - 8 October 1978, cat. 38A
The D. R. Sheumack Collection of Australian Paintings, S. H. Ervin, Sydney, 17 May - 12 June 1983, cat 63 (as 'Crossing the Jordan')

Literature

The D.R. Sheumack Collection of Australian Paintings, S. H. Ervin Gallery, Sydney, 1983, (illus. pl. 11)
Robyn Christie and Justin Miller, The D. R. Sheumack Collection, Eighty Years of Australian Paintings, Sydney: Sotheby's Australia Pty. Ltd., 1988, pl. 32 (illus.)
Anne Gray, George Lambert 1873 - 1930: catalogue raisonné paintings and sculpture, drawings in public collections, Perth: Bonamy Press in association with Sotheby's and the Australian War Memorial, 1996, p. 90

Condition

This work is in good stable condition; it is not lined and has the original stretcher. The work would benefit from a light surface clean.
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Catalogue Note

'This afternoon with my tall scout a real scout of the 3rd Brigade I have done a reconnaissance of the two places I am to paint & really they are wonderful, one a fording place of the Jordan just below the Lake Beheirit el Hule.  The Lake hills & Mount Hermon in background.'1

A related work to the present work is The ford over the Jordan at Jisr Benat Yakub (1919) in the collection of the Australian War Memorial, Canberra.  This work was acquired by the Australian War Memorial under the official war art scheme in 1921.

1. George Lambert to Amy Lambert, 9 June 1919, quoted in Anne Gray, George Lambert 1873 - 1930: catalogue raisonné paintings and sculpture, drawings in public collections, Perth: Bonamy Press  in association with Sotheby's and the Australian War Memorial,, 1996, p. 90